What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 1811 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-13.
GS-11
216
11.5%
GS-12
101
5.4%
GS-13
1,511
80.6%
GS-14
31
1.7%
GS-15
15
0.8%
1,874 General Schedule hires. Hires under other pay plans (wage grade, senior executive, and the excepted schedules) are not shown here.
Where it is hiring
Top agencies
| Department of Homeland Security | 3,371 |
| Department of Justice | 951 |
| Department of the Navy | 119 |
| Department of Treasury | 88 |
| Department of Commerce | 73 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | 26 |
| Department of Defense | 20 |
| Department of the Army | 20 |
Hire counts by employing agency, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on every hire in this series — standard for law-enforcement and intelligence occupations, where naming a duty state would identify individuals — so there is no state breakdown to publish.